Comment 5 for bug 271784

The tomcat packages are wisely split into separate packages per version. Anyone running tomcat in 8.04, for example, will, most likely, have the tomcat5.5 package installed. Therefore there is no risk of regression by backporting the tomcat6 package.

Furthermore, anyone who has enabled the backports repository without pinning is expressly configuring their system in a manner that suggests a policy of having the latest software regardless of possible incompatibilities. In my opinion, the traditional Linux policy is not to protect lesser experienced users from themselves at the expense of increased options for more experienced users. One could argue that more experienced users should be comfortable doing their own backports or installing from source. However, I feel that if users are willing to do the work of backporting their work should be accepted and users should be encouraged to using apt pinning whenever they enable backports. If this is not going to be the case for Ubuntu than perhaps a new backports repository for advanced users should be created.